Claiming His Human (Rogues) - Jenika Snow Page 0,5

females were used as breeders, and the healthy, young males for labor. But this place looked more like a home, or what she assumed a home to be.

There was the pallet she was on, and a small, metal, square looking contraption in the corner. It had doors on either side, so she supposed it was used to hold items, maybe clothing? She didn’t know much about these kinds of comforts, not with jumping from cave to cave. It was the only way for her to live, for her kind to survive.

“Are you hungry, thirsty?” he asked, still staying in the shadows. A cloud of smoke surrounded him as he exhaled, and she hated having to inhale it, hated that the room was foggy because of it. Was he trying to drug her, make her do what he said without fighting him?

She didn’t answer, just stared at him. He leaned forward, and she got a look at his face. God, it was the Rogue from the cave, the one that had stared at her, seemed transfixed by her. His hair was short, black as night, and his eyes, God, his eyes were so light blue they almost seemed white.

“I know you can understand me,” he said slowly, deeply. He inhaled from the long, white stick, the end lighting up red. He held his breath for a moment, and then exhaled the smoke. “I implanted a chip in your neck so you’ll understand my language,” he said without any emotion, without even showing any expression on his face.

She instantly touched the side of her neck, expecting there to be pain, but all she felt was this small, flat, disc-like device under her skin.

“So, I’ll ask you again,” he said and slowly stood, rising to his massive seven feet height. “Are you hungry or thirsty?”

She sat up, feeling lightheaded, but pushed it back. He took a step closer, and she scrambled back on the bed. Her heart beat painfully hard in her chest. The wall stopped her from moving any further from him, and as he came closer, she felt like she might pass out. He leaned forward, placed the white stick in his mouth, took a deep inhalation, and held her gaze with his own.

She was frozen, scared beyond words, and didn’t know what her fate was. Then he exhaled slowly, the white, sweet smelling smoke surrounding her face in this thick cloud. She started breathing harder as her fear consumed her, but as the seconds ticked by she felt herself growing relaxed on the bed, her heart calming, and her fear leaving.

He didn’t smirk, didn’t even move for a few seconds. Then he slowly stood to his full height again. “I’ll ask again, female.” He held her gaze again. “Are you hungry or thirsty?”

She felt herself nod, worry of what was going to happen and fear of this monster leaving her, just fading away. No, not leaving her, just being buried by the calmness that engulfed her. He moved out of the bedroom, the door sliding into the wall seamlessly. She didn’t know how long she sat there, but it seemed like an eternity before he came back.

His kind was so human looking, with little differences that weren’t so little in reality. Aside from his tattoos, his flesh was a strange combination of cream and brown, the color almost making him seem like he’d been in the sun … but not. Aside from the clear height and muscle mass difference between them and the humans, they looked very similar.

“Now, female.” He set the tray on the bed, and strange looking items were on top of it. A green gelatinous square sat on the left, a blue piece was next to that, and this brown, textured slab of what she knew was meat. There was also a helping of bite sized cream-colored pieces and a cup of what she assumed to be water beside that.

He stared down at her, and as she took in the monstrous size of this man, and the fact that he’d just gotten her this tray full of weird looking food, it felt as if the world was rushing around her and she was on the verge of going over some cliff without anyone realizing.

“Eat.” He said that command hard, with all the dominance she’d come to expect from his barbaric, yet very advanced species.

Picking up the green stuff, she started eating it. For some unexplainable reason it melted in her mouth, exploding with flavor, and having her